nautilus crashes when attempting to display a corrupted icon
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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nautilus (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Medium
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: nautilus
First of all I am not sure if this bug is the same as bug 328293. This is because for some reason I cannot find the stack trace that I thought was supposed to be created by apport, so I can't determine whether or not the crash occurred in nautilus_
There is a shortcut to the winecfg utility in my Applications -> Wine. When I right-clicked on that and clicked "Add this launcher to desktop", my system became overloaded with nautilus processes starting. After killing these from the terminal I found that nautilus simply wouldn't start at all. The reason for this was that the first thread has to draw the desktop, and upon drawing the desktop it would crash with SIGSEGV. (I think that this unlimited respawning problem is bug 325973, so I am reporting only the crash.)
When I started my system in KDE instead of Gnome I found that deleting this file (in Dolphin) caused nautilus to start working properly again. So I created the file again and tried editing it until it worked. The offending line turned out to be "Icon=wine-
That, in essence, is the bug.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: nautilus 1:2.24.1-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686
huh, that's all that apport collected? strange...
Here's the troublesome .svg file.